Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk featured in a joint Tesla-SpaceX broadcast of the Roadster demonstration, where the car used thrusters to land after an inverted jump, though Musk has acknowledged it will not materially move Tesla’s revenue and production is set to begin in 2028. Investor Gene Munster called the demonstration an “engineering flex” with no commercial value. Musk also pledged that SpaceX would reimburse users if Grok Bot made an incorrect purchase, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia now counts SpaceX alongside its cloud customers and that the two companies are designing a new server architecture for space and Earth. Huang also said the U.S. and China need to work together to keep AI development safe. On Stocktwits, retail sentiment on TSLA slipped to bearish, with chatter up nearly 150% over the past week.
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